The Star Inn
NEWPORT HISTORY SOCIETY INNS AND BEER HOUSES WALKING TOUR
30 HIGH STREET NEWPORT TF10 7AQ
Currently BARBERS ESTATE AGENTS, previously the STAR INN was a licensed premises from around 1791 until 1980.
In 1860 a local advert boasted that the inn had ‘an excellent kitchen and parlour with bow windows…. a bar parlour, a bar, a bagatelle room, pantry, extensive cellars, two large bedrooms, two attics the same size and four other bedrooms; together with the brewhouse, the scullery and coal house with a store room over……a two-stall stable with loft, out offices, piggeries and an excellent garden; also a malthouse capable of wetting and drying 40 bushels every four days;…. large shed for carriages or horses, another stable, a carpenter’s shop and office’.
The building is a 17th century timber-framed construction of some status with the front wall jettied, close-studded, and having carvings on the front of the front load-bearing beam, as seen below.
The carved decorations can be dated to the first half of the 17th century and, with evidence such as the Cavalier-type moustached man (hidden on the south corner) surviving, we can be sure that this building survived the Great Fire of Newport in 1665.
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Unfortunately, in 1901, there was a tragedy in the brewing house, when a brewer fell into a cauldron of boiling wort. Albert Titley was only 27 years old and died later at Stafford Infirmary
To the rear was a large garden and croft, later becoming allotments, which ran down to Audley Road. This was sometimes called ‘The Star Gardens’ . It was still there in this 1980s image.
Researched by Newport & District History Society
Funded by Newport and District History Society, Newport Town Council and BTW Pride in your High St funds.